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10-05-2013, 02:31 PM
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NBC Brooklyn color studio 1955
NBC Brooklyn color studio 1955, shown in ad for Vickers Electric magnetic amplifier lighting dimmers.
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10-05-2013, 04:58 PM
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Wow, that's a lot of lights!
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10-05-2013, 06:16 PM
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I had a chance to visit there about 15 years ago before NBC closed it courtesy of my good freind Rick, a NBC camera op. Still working today at the 18th green on NBC golf. Brooklyn's last gasp was a soap opera in one of the two buildings. I forget which soap. It began life as the Vitagraph Studio.
If you ever look closely at a soap opera, they are just a bunch of 2-3 minute scenes with multiple characters so it is easy for memorizing lines because they may only be in 4-5 scenes in the hour show. And the studio setup helped them. There were multiple sets...kitchen, living room, hospital, stairway, etc., along each long side of the studio side-by-side and a center "street" where the cameras moved from set to set. Actors would be in one set running lines in rehearsal with an assistant director, another set would be rehearsed and blocking camera shots. Down the street another set was live-to-tape at the same time. It was a production factory. It's a good thing that television hides a lot of sins. Broken sofas held up with wood blocks. Gaffers tape everywhere holding things together. Scripts laying on tables just out of camera range. Rick told me of a living room sofa cushion fight that started with old scripts flying out from under the cushions. The lighting was enormous but not as big as the Vickers days. Still tungsten and a lot of TK-47's around. Each set had a light grid that was electric elevator controlled. I did not see the dimmer controls. What a thrill to see the studio(s) that did Peter Pan. They used both buildings for that. One had the ground sets and the other was for the full sky flying scenes and with only three cameras they had to be racing around live. Maybe a BW camera for title cards. I have looked closely at the 1959 tape version and I think they did it with two cameras and a lot of splice-block editing. As much as Burbank gets all the press, you have to hand it to NBC for their NYC patchwork of Rockefeller Center, theatres up and down Broadway, sports venues and Brooklyn for what they pulled off.
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“Once you eliminate the impossible...whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." Sherlock Holmes. Last edited by Dave A; 10-05-2013 at 06:35 PM. Reason: typo
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10-23-2013, 10:53 PM
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10-24-2013, 07:15 PM
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It is deeper down in Brooklyn closer to Flatbush. It is on the corners of Locust Ave/E 14th St/Avenue M. The neighborhood is also known as Midwood. Don't know about the bakery but if it was one it was a big one.
More searching tells me I saw "Another World" being shot with Linda Dano on set that day. Big star for the later years of the program. Still alive now known a JC Studio.
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“Once you eliminate the impossible...whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." Sherlock Holmes. Last edited by Dave A; 10-24-2013 at 08:11 PM.
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